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M. I. D. EINSTEIN. PHOTOGRAPH HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED OCT. 15, 1918.

Patented June 24, 1919.

MILTON I. D. EINSTEIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IPHOTOGRAPI-I-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 24,1919.

Application filed. October 15, 1918. Serial No. 258,175;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILTON I. D. EIN- STEIN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, New York, have.

invented a new and useful Improvement in Photograph-Holders, which invention is fully set forth in the following specification.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a device which shall constitute not only a service-flag but also a frame for carrying the photograph of the relative who is in the service, and which shall satisfy the necessary mechanical functions as well as the esthetic requirements desirable for that purpose.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the annexed drawings in connection with the following description of one embodiment thereof, in which:

Figure l is a front view or elevation, illustrating a preferred form of the present invention; and

Fig. 2 shows, on a larger scale, the central panel, with the photograph in position.

In these drawings, 1 represents the frame, here shown as a service-flag or banner, which may be made of any suitable material, but preferably of fabric (such as silk, bunting, or the like). As shown, the banner is an elongated rectangle, and comprises the central elongated rectangular panel'2, surrounded by a wide margin, preferably of contrasted color. The banner is intended to be presented in the upright position shown in the drawings, with its longer sides vertical; and it may be suspended from its upper edge, as by being secured to a rod 3 provided with the usual cord. In the upper part of said panel may appear any suitable emblem or motto 4, such as the words Over there; and, in the lower portion, a star or other emblem 5. And, in that case, the photograph-retaining means, to be described below, will be located in the intermediate portion of the panel, and may be surrounded more or less by a vignette or other ornamentation.

In the panel is indicated an elliptical out: line, with its longer axis parallel with the longer sides of the panel. This outline need not be a precise mathematical ellipse, that term being used merely to designate any symmetrically-curving outline such as inclicated in the drawings. In'case the material be of fabric, this ellipse may be outlined by means of a complete elliptical line of embroidery or other stitching 6. And along one side of this ellipse is an interior curved line of stitching 7, concentric with the adj acent portion of the main elliptical-stitching; and on the other-side is a similar, but ,oppositely-curved, line of interior stitching 8. These two interior lines 7 and 8 are separated from the main stitching 6 by the two narrow curving blank spaces (whose width is somewhat exaggerated in the drawing), like the two members of a parenthesis,- where slits are to be cut through the material. 7

Either these slits may be out through first, and the several elliptical stitchings added afterward to bind the edges of the material; or, if desired, the slits may remain uncut until the user is ready to mount the photograph, in which case the curved slits will be cut in the parenthesis-like blankspaces aforesaid. In either case the two slits will be cut of equal length, and symmetrically disposed, care being taken not to cut through the upper and lower portions of the ellipse. This leaves the body-portion 9 of the ellipse integrally connected with the material of the panel. And, if desired, the upper and lower portions of the main stitching 6 may be so applied as to reinforce the uncut connecting-portions of the material.

The desired photograph 10 is inserted into the slits, as indicated in Fig. 2. By reason of the elliptical curvature of the slits, only the corner-portions 11 of the photograph will be concealed behind the panel, while all the likeness of the individual is presented through the full space afforded by the displacement of the elliptical bodyportion 9. The symmetrical arrangement of the two slits (especially if they have been cut to fit the size of the particular photo graph) will maintain the photograph securely, in level position.

If the frame be not of fabric, but of some other material (such as leather, papiermach, sheet-metal, etc.) upon which the stitching is not feasible, any other suitable means is employed for outlining the ellipse, so long as the spaces for cutting the two parentheses-like slits be appropriately outlined. And if the material be sufliciently stiff, the frame may be stood upright on a bureau or table, instead of being suspended.

Although the invention has thus been described in full detail, yet it Will be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise construction and arrai igement set forth, but comprises all modifications thereof.

Having thus described the invention, 'What is claimed is: I i

l. A photograph-holder,consisting of a banner of suitable fabric bf a single thick ness having an ellipse outlined thereon by means of twd concentric rows of stitching Which define curved spaces for two opposite symmetrical photograph receiviiig slits.

2. A photograph-holder, consisting of a baiiiier of suitable fabric having tv'v'o opts: sitely -'-ciii" ving photograph receivin slits mar gined externallyby a continuous elliptical line of stitching, said slits iiiivai' dlj margined additional stitching.

8 A photograpli holdei, consisting of a frame pf suitable material of a single thickness' having an ellipse otitliiie'd thereon and affording curving spaces for two opposite symmetrical slits for receiving a photograph.

4: A photograph-holder, consisting of a frame of suitable material having two oppositely-located curving slits outlining the 0paosite sides of an ellipse, for receiving a thew-graph.

5. A photograph-holder consisting of a sheet of suitable material having an elliptical central-portion whose tivo sides are com plet'ely seveted from the remainder of said sheet by two oppositely-curving slits cut entii'ly tht'o'tigh the thickness of said sheen While the end-portions 0'1": said ellipse ar'e uiisparated from the main portion of the sheet. 4

Iii testimony ivhei'eof I have Sig tied this specification.

MILTON i. D} EINSTEIN.

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